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At the moment, the WWAN core provides wwan_port_txon/off() to implement blocking writes. The tx() port operation should not block, instead wwan_port_txon/off() should be called when the TX queue is full or has free space again. However, in some cases it is not straightforward to make use of that functionality. For example, the RPMSG API used by rpmsg_wwan_ctrl.c does not provide any way to be notified when the TX queue has space again. Instead, it only provides the following operations: - rpmsg_send(): blocking write (wait until there is space) - rpmsg_trysend(): non-blocking write (return error if no space) - rpmsg_poll(): set poll flags depending on TX queue state Generally that's totally sufficient for implementing a char device, but it does not fit well to the currently provided WWAN port ops. Most of the time, using the non-blocking rpmsg_trysend() in the WWAN tx() port operation works just fine. However, with high-frequent writes to the char device it is possible to trigger a situation where this causes issues. For example, consider the following (somewhat unrealistic) example: # dd if=/dev/zero bs=1000 of=/dev/wwan0qmi0 dd: error writing '/dev/wwan0qmi0': Resource temporarily unavailable 1+0 records out This fails immediately after writing the first record. It's likely only a matter of time until this triggers issues for some real application (e.g. ModemManager sending a lot of large QMI packets). The rpmsg_char device does not have this problem, because it uses rpmsg_trysend() and rpmsg_poll() to support non-blocking operations. Make it possible to use the same in the RPMSG WWAN driver by adding two new optional wwan_port_ops: - tx_blocking(): send data blocking if allowed - tx_poll(): set additional TX poll flags This integrates nicely with the RPMSG API and does not require any change in existing WWAN drivers. With these changes, the dd example above blocks instead of exiting with an error. Cc: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.